We offer a novel theoretical model of how experienced teachers deal with the enormous complexity of classroom environments through the use of attentional skills, and report on the development of a methodology to explore the empirical basis for this model in a study of experienced mathematics teachers. In particular we address issues of the nature of the knowledge base that enables teachers to o...

Due to new organisational cultures and structures placing a premium on the executives who head public and private corporations, executives must expand their knowledge base to analyse and comprehend the many changes that are happening around them. Not all executives are able to adjust easily to these expectations, or balance the many competing demands and pressures their position may entail. In ...

Purpose – Knowledge sharing is the corner-stone of many organisations’ knowledge-management (KM) strategy. Despite the growing significance of knowledge sharing’s practices for organisations’ competitiveness and market performance, several barriers make it difficult for KM to achieve the goals and deliver a positive return on investment. This paper provides a detailed review of current KM and r...

Our works aim at developing a Web platform to connect various Communities of Practice (CoPs) and to capitalise on all their knowledge. This platform addresses CoPs interested in a same general activity, for example tutoring. For that purpose, we propose a general model of Interconnection of Communities of Practice (ICP), based on the concept of Constellation of Practice (CCP) developed by Wenge...

Knowledge Base Completion (KBC), or link prediction, is the task of inferring missing edges in an existing knowledge graph. Although a number of methods have been evaluated empirically on select datasets for KBC, much less attention has been paid to understanding the relationship between the logical properties encoded by a given KB and the KBC method being evaluated. In this paper we study the ...

Knowledge compilation by using the extension rule (KCER) has been recognized as a novel compilation approach, although this method can only deal with static knowledge bases. This paper proposes a novel incremental knowledge compilation method by using the extension rule so that it can tackle knowledge compilation problems in the dynamic environment. The method does not recompile the whole knowl...

This paper will introduce four key aspects of the implementation of a national technology curriculum. Firstly, we will discuss how the structure of the New Zealand Technology Curriculum (Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum, Ministry of Education, 1995) attempted to reflect the nature of technology and technological practice. The structure of the curriculum in terms of the broad outcomes an...

As it should, the field of disaster research has always been responsive to real-world events. Each disaster raises new questions, calls attention to shortcomings in the existing knowledge base, and prompts new researchers to enter the field. Thus, historically, progress in understanding disaster effects leaps forward after particularly catastrophic or newsworthy events. The September 11, 2001 t...

This paper explores the study of conversation agent knowledge bases particularly, its relationship to the related study of information trustworthiness and knowledge acquisition. Some important methods for knowledge extraction from online documents are discussed in this paper. This is done in relation to the purpose of the design and development of domain-specific information for CAs’ knowledge ...